Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as he lay in a Nottingham hospital, Jack got a crested letter which began: "Her Majesty has been pleased to award you the George Cross...
...Moulin Rouge (John Huston; United Artists), a biography of dwarfish Painter Toulouse-Lautrec, starring José Ferrer, wearing shoes on his knees, in his bid for a second award (his first: Cyrano de Bergerac...
...when Silent Cinemactress Janet Gaynor won Hollywood's first Academy Award for her acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...
...doctors should watch more carefully for ill effects of all drugs. ¶For his work in rehabilitating the physically handicapped at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital and promoting rehabilitation programs across the U.S., Dr. Howard A. Rusk, 51, was named winner of the $10,000 Dr. C. C. Criss Award, given annually by an Omaha insurance firm. ¶Every year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson...
...Spanish for "little one") Teran, was also and up & coming bantamweight (118 lbs.) boxer. As an amateur, he was beaten only once. As a professional, Keeny was hailed as a coming champion (16 wins, one draw) ; last year he won the boxing writers' "Fighter of the Year" award. Then, one night, his heroin-ravaged body failed to respond. Keeny took a savage beating from Hawaii's Tommy Umeda, a man he had beaten twice before...